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paṭipāditoti

paṭipādita

past participle (paṭipādito + iti, quotative particle)

1. guided; led; trained; taught; lit. caused to take a path
2. brought into, arranged, supplied

Built from

• paṭi — prefix · back, against
  Prefix showing return or counter-direction; here it gives the sense of guiding or setting upon a path.
• pad — root · go, step
  Cognate with Latin pes (foot), English foot. The root carries the concrete image of stepping or going.
• -ita — ending · past participle
  Verbal adjective marking completed action, here 'caused to go / guided'. The -iti at the end is the quotative particle meaning 'thus' or 'so'.

Analysis. paṭipādita (past participle) + iti (quotative particle 'thus, so'); the participle itself breaks down as paṭi- (back, against, in return) + pādita (caused to take a path, from pāda 'foot' or √pad 'go'), so 'caused to take a step back' or more naturally 'guided, directed along a path'.

Etymology. √pad (to go, step) — cognate with Latin pes (foot), English foot, German Fuß — compounds with paṭi- (back, against) to show the sense of guiding or directing someone along a course. The -ita ending marks the past participle.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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